Igor Ozerov

Author Identifiers: Scopus Author ID, Russian Science Citation Index, ORCID iD

Position: Research Scientist

E-mail: IOzerov@binran.ru

Research interests:

Study of the ultrastructure of cells (nuclei, chromosomes, chloroplasts, leucoplasts, tannins) of plants from the Cenozoic and Mesozoic eras using DNA-specific stains (Feulgen, DAPI, safranin, alcian blue).

Keywords: DNA-containing structures, nucleated cells, aldehyde groups of deoxyribose, chromatin, Feulgen testing, chloroplasts, thylakoid system, grana

Education and work experience:

1985 — graduated from Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science.

1986 — until now — employee of the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications:

Torshilova A.A., Ozerov I.A., Zhinkina N.A., Rodionov A.V. Seeds Alapaja (Cupressaceae) from the Cretaceous of Western Siberia and their paleo-DNA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 2025. 332: 105236.

Ozerov I.A., Zhinkina N.A., Torshilova A.A., Machs E.M., Rodionov A.V. Feulgen Testing of the Nuclei of Leaf Cells of Taxodium dubium (Cupressaceae) from the Eocene Tavda Flora of Western Siberia. Paleontological Journal. 2022. 56(3): 311–316.

Ozerov I.A., Zhinkina N.A., Torshilova A.A., Machs E.M., Rodionov A.V. Chromosomes of fossilized Metasequoia from early Oligocene of Siberia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 2021. 287: 104365.

Ozerov I.A., Zhinkina N.A., Torshilova A.A., Machs E.M., Myakoshina Y.A., Rodionov A.V. Use of DNA-specific stains as indicators of nuclei and extranuclear substances in leaf cells of the Middle Eocene Metasequoia from Arctic Canada. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 2020. 279: 104211.

Zhinkina N.A., Torshilova A.A., Ozerov I.A. Application of a modified staining technique for tissues of modern and fossil plants. [Primenenie modifitsirovannoi metodiki okrashivaniya tkanei sovremennykh i iskopayemykh rastenii]. Botanicheskii zhurnal. 2018. 103(9): 733–749. [In Russian]